It’s time for another giant pile of flaming and utterly useless information. As you already know I’ve always been a huge fan of trivia thats unusual, odd, or strange. I’ve collected this information from books, e-mails, notes from friends, and anywhere else I could find it. I hope you enjoy them and find them as interesting and fun as I did.

• New foreskins discarded after circumcision are sold to biomedical companies for use in artificial skin manufacture. They are also used as the secret ingredient in some popular anti-wrinkle gels.

• Lettuce contains 2 to 10 parts of morphine per billion.

• To see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.

• You can tell the temperature by listening to the chirp of a cricket. For the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and then add 37.

• A calorie is the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of 1 g of water by 1°C. A gallon of gasoline contains 31,000 K calories, or the equivalent of 46.3 happy meals.

• Bubblegum is pink because it’s creator Walter Diemer, a Fleer employee, had only pink coloring left when he mixed up his first successful batch.

• The fly of your jeans is the flap of cloth over the zipper, not the zipper itself.

• The term cop most likely derives from the British police acronym for Constable On Patrol.

• There are more Subway sandwich shops in Manhattan than there are actual subway stations.

• Henry Ford, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, and Paul Revere were all clock makers at one point in their lives.

• When Thomas Edison died in 1941, Henry Ford captured his last breath in a bottle.

• The first item sold on eBay (then called the auction web) was a broken laser pointer that sold for $14 at the time, more than the cost of a new one.

• The term “the whole 9 yards” dates from World War II. When fighter pilots armed airplanes, the 50 caliber machine gun ammunition belts loaded into the fuselage measured exactly 27 feet. If a pilot fired all his ammo at one target, it got “the whole 9 yards”.

• On average, women utter 7000 words a day; men manage just over 2000.

NOW WASN’T DAY 1 FUN?